Kenji Sukiyaki's hands trembled as he pushed the doorbell to the Human Relations suite of offices. His knees trembled almost as badly as his arms. He felt great shame at what he had done. He was only a humble salaryman. How would he feed little Sashimi, Sake and Miso if he lost his job at the Yukio Mishima Corporation?
The door was opened by an archetypical female Mishima employee, She wore a blue blazer over a blue and white-checked schoolgirl micro-kilt, which was the mandatory uniform for all female MishimaCorp employees. Said micro-kilt did little to hide her long, smooth, and well-toned thighs. Kenji didn't know who had designed these kilts, but he wanted to shake the man's hand, prostrate himself before him, and buy him a bellyful of hot sake.
Her hair was of course jet black with streaks of purple, green, and red. "Frau Himmler-san will see you now," MishimaCorp's well-toned corporate lackey announced and beckoned Kenji to follow her. He would have followed those swaying thighs into the very depths of hell, so the gesture was superfluous.
They arrived at the office of one Valkyrie Himmler, ACE. The brass plate outside her office Identified her position as "Director of Human Relations."
"Go on in, she is waiting for you, Kenji's guide said in a vaguely frightened voice. She turned and began to walk in the other direction. The walk soon became a trot and then a sprint before she disappeared around the corner of the corridor.
Kenji pushed the door open and was greeted by a woman with false golden hair, which was pulled back into a severe bun. Based on he roundness of her eyes, she appeared to be at least half
gaijin
, which was the Japanese word for foreigner, at least that's what they told the
gaijin.
Secretly, the word meant belly-crawling retarded shit-pig, surely a more apt description.
Frau Himmler carried a riding crop, with which she rhythmically slapped her left palm, although Kenji knew of no riding stables at MishimaCorp. She wore thigh-high riding boots that only served to emphasize the smoothness of her thighs beneath her kilt.
Kenji could feel the sexual tension in the air and knew she longed to break him, to bend him to her will, to dominate him completely. He wondered if she had received the memo that World War II was over, and that it had not gone well for either the Kraut gaijin or Japan.
She came to full attention with a click of her heels, and her hand shot up in a Nazi-style salute. Kenji did the same.
"Do you know why you are here, worm?"
Kenji, who was by now cowering on the floor, shook his head.
"Did you not tell Tamiko Teriyaki that you liked her hairstyle? Did you not tell Gogo Yubari that she had a nice smile? Is that not the reason she slammed her twenty-pound spiked mace against your head, rippling your face apart?"
"Hai, Himmler-san!" Kenji said, pressing his forehead so hard against the floor in abasement that it was amazing that he did not bore a tunnel into the Receivables department below them. Judging from the erotic moans Kenji heard penetrating right through the floorboards and their concrete underpinning, not only the floorboards were being penetrated, but the personnel of the Receivables department were living up to their job titles, literally. Over and over again.
"You will address me only as 'Mistress,' and you must use the proper honorific. Do you understand me?"
"
Hai
, Mistress-sama."
"Did you not know that such remarks threaten the delicate flowers who are the female employees of MishimaCorp, or that such remarks indicate a sexual interest that these women find threatening?
"Tell me, worm, do you find my hair attractive? Do you want to run your tongue up and down my milky white thighs?"
"Hai, Mistress-sama. I mean no, Mistress-sama. Is this a trick question, sensei?"
Kenji suddenly rose and grabbed the decorative
wakizashi
, or samurai short sword, right out of Frau Himmler's display case. He knelt before her and tore open his shirt, revealing the hard muscles of his abs. He tied the
hachimaki
, or white headband, he always carried in his pocket for just such an occasion tightly around his forehead. He pointed the steel tip of the
wakizashi
at his intestines and pressed down, drawing blood.
"I cannot live with this shame, Mistress-sama. I must commit
seppuku
at once." He knelt in the formal position for committing
hari-kari.
"Actually I try to discourage acts of
seppuku
in my office, Kenji-san. At the very least we would need to put a plastic tarp over my beautiful Persian carpet. Also, the smell is less than savory when your intestines spill out. I don't know if there is enough Pine-Sol in world to cure that. Also we have tried to discourage acts of
seppuku
since the early seventies."
"The blade would only have to penetrate my well-toned abs an inch or so. Then you could lop off my head just as they did when our founder Mishima-sama committed
hari-kari
, may he repose in the Pure Land forever. You could use the
katana
for my decapitation," Kenji said, indicating the long samurai sword that remained in the display case.
"You could even call up the MishimaCorp's softball, soccer, and basketball teams to ensure that my head does not fall outside the tarp area. Mussolini-san's head made an excellent soccer ball at the end of WWII, the big one, may Il Duce be smothered in spaghetti paradise forever."
"I ask you only to allow me to die an honorable death, Mistress-sama. I have already taken the liberty of composing my death haiku. It goes like this:
head rolling
world upside down
what bliss.
"That is very beautiful and very moving, Kenji-chan. But I cannot allow you to commit
seppuku
here. The carpet alone is worth a quintillion yen. I hope you understand.
"Let me repeat my question, worm. Do you like my hair?"
"Yes, I mean no, Mistress-sama. I'm not sure what the right answer is," Kenji pled, further prostrating himself at her feet.
"Rise, my trembling salaryman. Come up here where I can see you."
Kenji rose slowly, his knees shaking in both fear and desire.
"Do you long to run your fingers through my silken golden hair, worm?"
"
Hai,
" Kenji said, beginning to grasp the thrust of their conversation (both literally and figuratively).
"Yank the pin out of my hair, my noble samurai of the spreadsheets,". Frau Himmler commanded.